Decolonizing the landscape : indigenous cultures in Australia /
Decolonizing the landscape : indigenous cultures in Australia /
Indigenous cultures in Australia
edited by Beate Neumeier and Kay Schaffer.
- 1 online resource (xix, 296 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Cross/cultures, 173 0924-1426 ; .
- Cross/Cultures 173. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004357884. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material -- From Drill to Dance / The Great Tradition: Translating Durrudiya’s Songs / Aboriginal Families, Knowledge, and the Archives: A Case Study / Decolonizing Methodology in an Arnhem Land Garden / The ‘Cultural Design’ of Western Desert Art / Modernism, Antipòdernism, and Australian Aboriginality / Material Resonance: Knowing Before Meaning / Waiting at the Border: White Filmmaking on the Ground of Aboriginal Sovereignty / Wounded Spaces/Geographies of Connectivity: Stephen Muecke’s No Road (bitumen all the way), Margaret Somerville’s Body/Landscape Journals, and Katrina Schlunke’s Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a Massacre / Recovering the Past: Entangled Histories in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance / The Geopolitical Underground: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria, Mining, and the Sacred / Identity and the Re-Assertion of Aboriginal Knowledge in Sam Watson’s The Kadaitcha Sung / Gallows Humour and Stereotyping in the Nyungar Writer Alf Taylor’s Short Fiction: A White Cross-Racial Reading / “And in my dreaming I can let go of the spirits of the past”: Gothicizing the Common Law in Richard Frankland’s No Way to Forget / Performative Lives – Transformative Practices: Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman, The 7 Stages of Grieving, and Richard Frankland, Conversations with the Dead / Notes on Contributors. Kim Scott -- Stephen Muecke -- Anna Haebich -- Michael Christie -- Eleonore Wildburger -- Ian Henderson -- Bill Ashcroft -- Lisa Slater -- Kay Schaffer -- Sue Kossew -- Philip Mead -- Heinz Antor -- Anne Brewster -- Katrin Althans -- Beate Neumeier --
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How does one read across cultural boundaries? The multitude of creative texts, performance practices, and artworks produced by Indigenous writers and artists in contemporary Australia calls upon Anglo-European academic readers, viewers, and critics to respond to this critical question. Contributors address a plethora of creative works by Indigenous writers, poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and painters, including Richard Frankland, Lionel Fogarty, Lin Onus, Kim Scott, Sam Watson, and Alexis Wright, as well as Durrudiya song cycles and works by Western Desert artists. The complexity of these creative works transcends categorical boundaries of Western art, aesthetics, and literature, demanding new processes of reading and response. Other contributors address works by non-Indigenous writers and filmmakers such as Stephen Muecke, Katrina Schlunke, Margaret Somerville, and Jeni Thornley, all of whom actively engage in questioning their complicity with the past in order to challenge Western modes of knowledge and understanding and to enter into a more self-critical and authentically ethical dialogue with the Other. In probing the limitations of Anglo-European knowledge-systems, essays in this volume lay the groundwork for entering into a more authentic dialogue with Indigenous writers and critics.
9789401210423
10.1163/9789401210423 DOI
Aboriginal Australians--Cultural assimilation.
Aboriginal Australians--Cultural assimilation.
GN666 / .D43 2014
820.9899/15
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material -- From Drill to Dance / The Great Tradition: Translating Durrudiya’s Songs / Aboriginal Families, Knowledge, and the Archives: A Case Study / Decolonizing Methodology in an Arnhem Land Garden / The ‘Cultural Design’ of Western Desert Art / Modernism, Antipòdernism, and Australian Aboriginality / Material Resonance: Knowing Before Meaning / Waiting at the Border: White Filmmaking on the Ground of Aboriginal Sovereignty / Wounded Spaces/Geographies of Connectivity: Stephen Muecke’s No Road (bitumen all the way), Margaret Somerville’s Body/Landscape Journals, and Katrina Schlunke’s Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a Massacre / Recovering the Past: Entangled Histories in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance / The Geopolitical Underground: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria, Mining, and the Sacred / Identity and the Re-Assertion of Aboriginal Knowledge in Sam Watson’s The Kadaitcha Sung / Gallows Humour and Stereotyping in the Nyungar Writer Alf Taylor’s Short Fiction: A White Cross-Racial Reading / “And in my dreaming I can let go of the spirits of the past”: Gothicizing the Common Law in Richard Frankland’s No Way to Forget / Performative Lives – Transformative Practices: Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman, The 7 Stages of Grieving, and Richard Frankland, Conversations with the Dead / Notes on Contributors. Kim Scott -- Stephen Muecke -- Anna Haebich -- Michael Christie -- Eleonore Wildburger -- Ian Henderson -- Bill Ashcroft -- Lisa Slater -- Kay Schaffer -- Sue Kossew -- Philip Mead -- Heinz Antor -- Anne Brewster -- Katrin Althans -- Beate Neumeier --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
How does one read across cultural boundaries? The multitude of creative texts, performance practices, and artworks produced by Indigenous writers and artists in contemporary Australia calls upon Anglo-European academic readers, viewers, and critics to respond to this critical question. Contributors address a plethora of creative works by Indigenous writers, poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and painters, including Richard Frankland, Lionel Fogarty, Lin Onus, Kim Scott, Sam Watson, and Alexis Wright, as well as Durrudiya song cycles and works by Western Desert artists. The complexity of these creative works transcends categorical boundaries of Western art, aesthetics, and literature, demanding new processes of reading and response. Other contributors address works by non-Indigenous writers and filmmakers such as Stephen Muecke, Katrina Schlunke, Margaret Somerville, and Jeni Thornley, all of whom actively engage in questioning their complicity with the past in order to challenge Western modes of knowledge and understanding and to enter into a more self-critical and authentically ethical dialogue with the Other. In probing the limitations of Anglo-European knowledge-systems, essays in this volume lay the groundwork for entering into a more authentic dialogue with Indigenous writers and critics.
9789401210423
10.1163/9789401210423 DOI
Aboriginal Australians--Cultural assimilation.
Aboriginal Australians--Cultural assimilation.
GN666 / .D43 2014
820.9899/15